Here you will find a collection of ideas, data fiddling, explorations and other notes on bioinformatics and more generally about host-microbe interactions.

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Recently was the Department retreat of my new (relatively, I have already been there six months, time fly...) institution. As a short summary, I am currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Samuel Lab within the Baylor College of Medicine. The Samuel Lab belongs to the Molecular Virology and Microbiology (MVM)…

Hello Folks, it's been a while since I posted here. Plenty of things have happened since my previous Japan posts. The main one being the new postdoc position I started this March in the lab of Buck Samuel at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Reducing your life to…

Sake is probably one of the most iconic Japanese alcohols. It is referred to as rice wine, but unlike wine where the sugar present in the grapes is fermented into alcohols, sake is produced in a process closer to beer brewing where the starch present in the rice is transformed…

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. So we are. We are currently roaming and eating our way through the small narrow streets of Tokyo. Each time we stop at or pass by a restaurant or a small busy street food stall you can always spot the omnipresent Nori…

Comparing genomes of 600 Helicobacter pylori

Let's compare many genomes of the same bacteria and see what comes out.

Latest posts

[Playing with Data] 607 pylori part III: Start digging

Hello Folks, it's been a while! I thought it would be time to continue this big Helicobacter pylori genomes experiment and keep the blog going on. We left with the previous post on preparing the data for our analyses. The main next step will be re-annotating all the genomes in…

[Playing with Data] 607 pylori part II: getting the data ready

In the previous post we had a look at some interesting features of Helicobacter pylori. Now it is time to finally get our hands on the data. This post will present the data preparation, how to get everything ready in a comparable way for easy analyses.Now that we know more…